Robotic assembly of modular concrete shells using falsework by Egor Ivaniuk, Dmytro Pukhkaiev, Mathias Reichle, Wanqi Zhao, Johannes Mey, Manuel Krombholz, Zlata Tošić, Uwe Aßmann, Sven Klinkel, Viktor Mechtcherine

“…This type of structure saves materials, while the modular approach makes them more cost-effective by eliminating the need for formwork. …”
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THE MAIN PREREQUISITES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO OPTIMIZE STAFF WORKING HOURS by V. V. Degtyareva, P. M. Gureev, D. A. Trubkin

“…The effect of implementing WFM is as follows: increased staff efficiency, improved service level, revenue growth as a result of lower costs and more competent traffic coverage, increased staff involvement and saving management time.…”
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Research on key technologies of direct-to-handset under satellite-terrestrial integrated network by LIU Hui, YE Yang, DING Zhidong, LIU Xianghua, ZHU Ziyuan, ZHOU Jing

“…The requirements and potential improvement schemes for multi-mode terminals in satellite communication scenarios in terms of integrated design, antenna capabilities, voice capabilities and power saving, were also identified. Finally, by exploring the key regulatory challenges (e.g. radio-frequency spectrum) related to direct-to-handset communications, feasible pathways for the future development of satellite-terrestrial integrated terminals were provided.…”
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Nonrenewable Energy Cost and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a “Pig-Biogas-Fish” System in China by Qing Yang, Xiaofang Wu, Haiping Yang, Shihong Zhang, Hanping Chen

“…The purpose of this study is to assess the energy savings and emission reductions of the present rural biogas system in China. …”
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Advanced energy management strategy for microgrids with integrated battery storage and renewable generation by El Ganaoui Mourlan Ouafae, Miliani El Hadj, Moussadeq Meryem, Kabalan Bilal

“…The integration of this EMS results in significant benefits, with approximately 12% savings in electricity bills compared to a reference strategy.…”
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A Hardware Efficient Random Number Generator for Nonuniform Distributions with Arbitrary Precision by Christian de Schryver, Daniel Schmidt, Norbert Wehn, Elke Korn, Henning Marxen, Anton Kostiuk, Ralf Korn

“…At ReConFig 2010, we have presented a new design that saves up to 48% of area compared to state-of-the-art inversion-based implementation, usable for arbitrary distributions and precision. …”
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Design of event-triggered state estimator with unknown input in wireless sensor networks by Cheng-han XIE, Sai-jie LU, Yun-ji LI, Li PENG

“…With the development of sensors and wireless network technology,a series of new applications based on the wireless sensor has been merged in the past decades.Too much energy consumption and over-abundant occupancy rates of bandwidth are great challenges in these new applications,thus,it is of great practical significance to study the energy saving of the data transmission among these nodes.An estimator with the corresponding event-triggered transmission scheme was investigated for a class of discrete-time stochastic systems subject to unknown input.Its features satisfied the characteristic of unbiased and minimum variance was designed and then the proposed event-triggered strategy,which decided the transfer time of the data packet,can be used to reduce the number of data transmission.Furthermore,an upper bound of system performance was derived for obtaining the parameters of event scheme in details.Finally,a numerical example was given to verify the potential and effectiveness of the proposed theoretical result.…”
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Toward the Implementation of an ASIC-Like System on FPGA for Real-Time Video Processing with Power Reduction by Lilia Kechiche, Lamjed Touil, Bouraoui Ouni

“…The results show power savings for up to 60% with respect to performance and real-time constraints.…”
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Anti-cancer immunotherapy-related cardiotoxicity: preventable and treatable by Wu Helena T., Hsu Vanessa, Win Shwe, Xing Yan

“…With immunotherapies becoming more prevalent, this review calls for stronger evidence-based guidelines to manage and prevent these cardiovascular complications, ensuring that patients can benefit from life-saving immunotherapies without jeopardizing cardiovascular health.…”
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nearly Zero Energy Modules – Low-impact modular housing models for the city of the future by Rosa Romano, Eleonora Di Monte

“…These modules are designed to address various functional and technical-regulatory needs, including energy savings, energy efficiency, indoor comfort, accessibility, and structural safety while adhering to environmental compatibility. …”
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Fast QTMT partition decision based on deep learning by Shuang PENG, Xiaodong WANG, Zongju PENG, Fen CHEN

“…Compared with the predecessor standards, versatile video coding (VVC) significantly improves compression efficiency by a quadtree with nested multi-type tree (QTMT) structure but at the expense of extremely high coding complexity.To reduce the coding complexity of VVC, a fast QTMT partition method was proposed based on deep learning.Firstly, an attention-asymmetric convolutional neural network was proposed to predict the probability of partition modes.Then, the fast decision of partition modes based on the threshold was proposed.Finally, the cost of coding performance and time was proposed to obtain the optimal threshold, and the threshold decision method was proposed.Experimental results at different levels show that the proposed method achieves an average time saving of 48.62%/52.93%/62.01% with the negligible BDBR of 1.05%/1.33%/2.38%.Such results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide by Sydney Park Brown, Danielle Treadwell, James M. Stephens, Susan Webb

“… Vegetable gardening offers fresh air, sunshine, exercise, enjoyment, mental therapy, nutritious fresh vegetables, and economic savings, as well as many other benefits. With some attention to planning and planting, vegetables can be grown year-round in Florida. …”
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Evaluating Ecological and Economic Benefits of a Low-Carbon Industrial Park Based on Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Framework by Bin Chen, Guoxuan He, Jin Yang, Jieru Zhang, Meirong Su, Jing Qi

“…It can be concluded that low-carbon industrial park construction is an efficacious way to achieve coordinated development of society, economy, and environment, and a promising approach to achieving energy saving and carbon reduction.…”
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Provide Even More Targeted Relief for Lower Income Groups by Alexander S. Kritikos, Johanna Schulze Düding, Octavio Morales, Maximilian Priem

“…Since the low-income deciles cannot compensate for the additional expenditure by reducing their savings rate or possible reserves, nor can they restrict their consumption behavior to a corresponding extent since they primarily consume goods and services for basic needs, it is essential to provide relief for these households. …”
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Wireless virtual network embedding algorithm based on link reliability by Juan LUO, Chuan-chuan LIU, Ren-fa LI

“…According to the problem of the poor reliability of wireless network links affectting wireless virtual network embedding,a wireless virtual network embedding algorithm based on link reliability named WVNEA-LR was proposed.This algorithm through the physical network topology pretreatment and the method of allowing multiple virtual nodes in the same virtual request mapping to the same physical nodes,improved the success rate of virtual networks construction and saved the physical link resources.The problem that low success ratio of virtual networks construction results from topology sparse was also improved with Q fact.Besides，node embedding of WVNEA-LR made the preparation for link embedding and this algorithm ensured virtual network embedded with high reliability via choosing high reliable paths during link embedding.Simulation results show the better success rate of virtual networks construction and higher resource utility can be acquired.…”
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Design of low power and high speed FFT/IFFT processor for UWB system by LIU Liang, WANG Xue-jing, YE Fan, REN Jun-yan

“…A new 128/64-point FFT/IFFT processor used in Ultra-Wide-Band（UWB） system was presented.The proces-sor,which is based on 8×8×2 mixed radix algorithm,can deal with multiple inputs more efficiently for MIMO applica-tions.A new eight-path-feedback structure,which can provide a higher throughput and lower power dissipation,was proposed.The test chip has been fabricated using SMIC 0.13μm single-poly and eight-metal CMOS process with a core area of 1.44mm2.The throughput of this chip is up to 1Gsample/s,and the power dissipation is 39.6mW when it works at the throughput of 500Msample/s which meets the UWB standard.This chip reduces 40% of core area and saves 45% of power dissipation compared with those existing 128-point FFT processors.…”
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Analysis of the Resilience of Balance of Payments Using Comprehensive Evaluation by Shixin Fan, Ying Liu

“…The main conclusions are as follows: (1) balance of payments resilience score can be used as a reference and early warning indicator of a country’s balance of payments situation and improves the measurement of balance of payments. (2) Improving the country’s unemployment rate and boosting adjusted net savings will significantly upgrade the balance of payments situation. …”
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Fast and low-complexity video down-sizing transcoder by Zhuo-yi LV, Ke-bin JIA, Wan-chi WIU

“…An efficient mode decision scheme for down-sizing video transcoding in H.264 using support vector machines (SVM)was proposed.In order to reduce the high computationa complexity of using conventional mode decision in the H.264 re-encoder,the proposed scheme used SVM to exploit the correlation between coding information extracted from the input high-resolution bit-stream and the coding modes of macro-blocks in down-sized video frames.The key techniques of training and predicting SVM including feature vector and kernel function were studied and then the SVM model was trained.After the hierarchical SVM classifier,improbable modes were eliminated and only a small number of candidate modes were carried out using the RDO operations.Hence,remarkable computing time could be saved,up to 67.31%,while maintaining nearly the same quality of the transcoded pictures.…”
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Shamballa, Heaven can wait. How 3D printing will sustain the future by Dario Russo, Massimo Moretti

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Analysis on 5G XR and enhancement on media service by Xiaonan SHI, Chunshan XIONG, Hui NI, Dan WANG

“…5G XR and enhancement on media service are very important business scenarios in 5G-Advanced network.With the increasing user demands for emerging new media services, 5G network needs to make corresponding enhancements for media services such as XR.The main business scenarios of XR and augmented multimedia were mainly introduced, including immersive virtual reality, augmented reality, remote control technology based on mixed reality, virtual factory, remote unmanned aerial vehicle control, etc.For the typical business scenarios of XR, there were already some specifications and on-going studies in 3GPP.Based on these existing activities, 5G network need further enhancements including 5G QoS framework for XR service, coordination between network and application, synchronization of flows of multi-user and multi-stream, power saving of terminals and network etc., so that the 5G network could provide better support to 5G XR and enhanced media services leveraging the above enablers.…”
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